Bengali

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Indo-Aryan language modern language

Bengali is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Bengal region of South Asia and serving as the official and most widely used language of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Observed surface forms (12)

Surface form	Occurrences
Bengali language	3
Bengalis	2
Bangali (Dhakaiya) Bengali	1
Bangla	1
Bengali cinema	1
Bengali language continuum	1
Bengali people	1
Chittagonian (often treated as separate language)	1
Rarhi Bengali	1
Standard Bengali	1
Standard Colloquial Bengali	1
Standard Formal Bengali	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Indo-Aryan language ⓘ modern language ⓘ
ancestor	Magadhi Prakrit ⓘ Sanskrit ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Assamese ⓘ Odia ⓘ surface form: Oriya (Odia)
developedFrom	Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ surface form: Middle Indo-Aryan languages
family	Indo-European language family ⓘ surface form: Indo-European languages
hasAlphabeticOrder	Akar (অ) as first letter ⓘ
hasDialects	Bengali self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Bangali (Dhakaiya) Bengali Bengali self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Chittagonian (often treated as separate language) Jamalpuri dialect ⓘ Nadia dialect ⓘ Bengali self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Rarhi Bengali Sylheti (often treated as separate language) ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType	fusional ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	contrastive aspiration in stops ⓘ retroflex consonants ⓘ
hasStandardForm	Bengali self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Standard Colloquial Bengali Bengali self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Standard Formal Bengali
hasWordOrder	SOV (subject–object–verb) ⓘ
languageCodeISO639-1	bn ⓘ
languageCodeISO639-2	ben ⓘ
languageCodeISO639-3	ben ⓘ
nativeName	বাংলা ⓘ
numberOfSpeakers	hundreds of millions ⓘ
officialLanguageOf	People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan) ⓘ surface form: Bangladesh Indian state of Assam (some districts) ⓘ Indian state of Tripura ⓘ Indian state of West Bengal ⓘ
recognizedBy	Constitution of Bangladesh ⓘ Constitution of India ⓘ
region	Assam ⓘ People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan) ⓘ surface form: Bangladesh Bengal ⓘ surface form: Bengal region Tripura ⓘ West Bengal ⓘ
scriptDirection	left-to-right ⓘ
status	national language of Bangladesh ⓘ official language of several Indian states ⓘ
subbranch	Eastern Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
subfamily	Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ
usedAs	lingua franca in Bangladesh ⓘ lingua franca in parts of eastern India ⓘ
usedIn	Bengali cinema ⓘ Bengali literature ⓘ Bengali music ⓘ
writingSystem	Bengali script ⓘ Eastern Nagari script ⓘ
writingSystemType	abugida ⓘ

Referenced by (90)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Pohela Boishakh → associatedWithLanguage → Bengali ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bengali language

Google Translate → availableLanguage → Bengali ⓘ

Jamalpuri dialect → belongsTo → Bengali ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bengali language

Jamalpuri dialect → closelyRelatedTo → Bengali ⓘ

this entity surface form: Standard Bengali

Odia → closelyRelatedTo → Bengali ⓘ

Indian state of West Bengal → demonym → Bengali ⓘ

subject surface form: West Bengal

Middle Indo-Aryan → developedInto → Bengali ⓘ

Bengal → dominantLanguage → Bengali ⓘ

Tapati Lahiri → ethnicBackground → Bengali ⓘ

C. R. Das → ethnicGroup → Bengali ⓘ

Irene Khan → ethnicGroup → Bengali ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bengali people

Jibanananda Das → ethnicGroup → Bengali ⓘ

Michael Madhusudan Dutt → ethnicGroup → Bengali ⓘ

Mohammad Ali Bogra → ethnicGroup → Bengali ⓘ

Prabhavati Bose → ethnicGroup → Bengali ⓘ

Satyajit Ray → ethnicGroup → Bengali ⓘ

Surendranath Banerjee → ethnicGroup → Bengali ⓘ

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay → ethnicity → Bengali ⓘ

Bengali Muslims → ethnicity → Bengali ⓘ

Sarojini Naidu → ethnicity → Bengali ⓘ

Bengali → hasDialects → Bengali self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Rarhi Bengali

Bengali → hasDialects → Bengali self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bangali (Dhakaiya) Bengali

Bengali → hasDialects → Bengali self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Chittagonian (often treated as separate language)

Islamic world → hasEthnicGroup → Bengali ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bengalis

Andaman Hindi → hasInfluenceFrom → Bengali ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bengali language

BDT → hasLanguage → Bengali ⓘ

Bengali Renaissance → hasLanguage → Bengali ⓘ

Forward Bloc → hasLanguage → Bengali ⓘ

Islamic world → hasLanguage → Bengali ⓘ

Nawab of Bengal → hasLanguage → Bengali ⓘ

SEATO → hasLanguage → Bengali ⓘ

Samuel → hasLanguageForm → Bengali ⓘ

Anish → hasLanguageOfUse → Bengali ⓘ

eastern India → hasOfficialLanguage → Bengali ⓘ

subject surface form: Eastern India

Bengali → hasStandardForm → Bengali self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Standard Colloquial Bengali

Bengali → hasStandardForm → Bengali self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Standard Formal Bengali

Chokher Bali → hasTitleLanguage → Bengali ⓘ

Eastern Nagari script → hasUnicodeBlock → Bengali ⓘ

Wikiversity → hasVersionInLanguage → Bengali ⓘ

Bengal → historicalLanguage → Bengali ⓘ

Indo-Aryan languages → includesLanguage → Bengali ⓘ

Indo-Iranian languages → includesLanguage → Bengali ⓘ

Sanskrit → influenced → Bengali ⓘ

Indian English → influencedBy → Bengali ⓘ

Kurukh → influencedBy → Bengali ⓘ

Bengal → knownFor → Bengali ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bengali cinema

Andaman Islands → language → Bengali ⓘ

Bengal Sultanate → language → Bengali ⓘ

Chittagong → language → Bengali ⓘ

Constitution of Bangladesh → language → Bengali ⓘ